[Eril-l] Creating PDFs with DRM

[Larrison, Stephanie A]

Hi Lisa,

If you have an ebrary subscription, you can use DASH to host proxied PDFs.  That’s what we do.  They can even set up a version that does not allow downloading.  See http://support.ebrary.com/kb/what-is-dash/

~Stephanie

From: Eril-l [mailto:eril-l-bounces at lists.eril-l.org] On Behalf Of Melissa Belvadi
Sent: Monday, December 14, 2015 12:09 PM
To: Mackinder, Lisa
Cc: eril-l at lists.eril-l.org
Subject: Re: [Eril-l] Creating PDFs with DRM

There is absolutely no way to provide access to a PDF AND disallow downloading, because the very way that web clients work is that content gets downloaded in the process of being delivered to the client.

We provide proxied PDF access using our Drupal web server.  That's actually where we have all of our e-reserves too.

Drupal is a free (as in kittens, not as in beer) open source web platform.  There are probably plugins for it that can be combined with an ezproxy server to deliver PDFs through a one-page-at-a-time embedded display.

Our own Islandora system can deliver TIFFs this way (which PDFs are easily converted to), and it's all free too, using Drupal and Fedora, but unless you have a serious systems team, that's probably too much work to set up for just a few documents.

Melissa

On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 12:08 PM, Mackinder, Lisa <mackinde at ohio.edu<mailto:mackinde at ohio.edu>> wrote:
Hello,

We receive proprietary PDFs from a third-party as donations.  Rather than incur the expense of printing and binding them to add to the collection, we’d like to provide access electronically.  However, the third party wants assurances that we can prevent downloading and printing of the PDFs.  So I’m exploring this possibility.

Does anyone have any experience with a way to accomplish this type of protection?  I’m thinking there must be a product or platform out there that can take a PDF and provide DRM restrictions to it to limit downloading and printing.

Thanks for your help,


Lisa


Lisa Mackinder | Head of Acquisitions and Collections Services
Alden Library | Ohio University
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